If you’ve every tried to import data into SQL from another source, or even if you’ve just tried to insert data from a user, odds are you’ve hit ths annoying string or binary data would be truncated error message. I hit it at my first full time job, trying to insert data into SQL […]
Knowing the difference between join types is a very important part of querying a database. The two main joins that I use each day are INNER and LEFT. INNER join means get me everything from table A that has a matching row in table B. LEFT means get me everything from table A and if […]
I have been using Linksys routers for years, since my first router, a WRT54G purchased off eBay. So when my most recent router started to die, it was time to look for a replacement and I naturally went to look at the new Linksys routers again.
This week, I was trying to improve the performance of a bit of SQL and noticed that it generated significantly different query plans depending on the parameters passed in. So I tried to work out how to make it run well for all scenarios.
As part of my job, I maintain a c# WPF app that we run on developers desktops. This app does things in the background for a while and if you have the app open then you get some feedback on where it is up to. But if you don’t have it open in front of […]
I recently patched some servers from SQL 2014 SP2 CU3 all the way up to CU10. The patching went fine, everything came back online and looked to be working perfectly. However, the next day I realised that the CDC Collection Job was not running. After much googling and trying to rebuild the collection job, I […]
Kendra Little over at SQL Workbooks recently answered the question “When should I use explicit transactions for single statements?” I’m not going to re-hash what Kendra wrote, go and read it on her site. What I want to do is add another case for when I use explicit transactions for a single statement. Firstly, what is an […]
A current project I’m working on has it’s database stored in Source Control (you should be using source control) using a Visual Studio .sqlproj file. Visual Studio is able to generate a SQL script to update the database to make the objects the same as what is in Source Control. One of the things it […]
A few years ago I needed to join a table to the result of a table-value function and came across Cross Apply. Cross Apply and Outer Apply were introduced back in SQL 2005.
There are many different ways to store integers in SQL, how do you know which is the best?
